This Week in Avalanche, December 27, 2021
Liquid Staking, Vending Machines, Sushi Updates + More
Avalanche Major News
Avalanche C-chain reaches the highest daily transactions ever on 22 December—962,666 txs.
“Insane” Avalanche growth:
80% of Ethereum’s activity
134,000 daily active addresses
13,000 unique developers
The number of unique Avalanche C-chain developers doubles in December
Cross-chain tokens $SOL, $LUNA and $MATIC appeared in the top-10 Avalanche contracts on Trader Joe
Stats
Avalanche rises to #3 network with highest YTD TVL
Avalanche network maintains $17B TVL
Total Avalanche address at 1,463,376
Total cumulative transactions at over 451,400,000
Over 83,600 C-chain contracts deployed
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Ecosystem
Daniele Sestagalli announced a multi-chain plan to integrate Wonderland Finance ($TIME) closely with Popsicle Finance ($ICE), Abracadabra Money ($SPELL) and Sushi Swap ($SUSHI)
Vending Machines NFT, a unique upcoming NFT project with gamelike utility is preparing for launch with whitelisting contests.
AVenturesDAO invested in and partnered with Heroes Chained a fantasy action RPG game
MagnetDAO an Avalanche start-up accelerator & investment fund initiated the public sale of $MAG
Pollen DeFi a community-generated index platform announced doubled farming rewards
Snowbank allowed holders to exchange $SB at RFV ~USD $400 in #MIM or hold for use in Snowbank V2’s liquidity governance project.
Lava a liquid staking validator delegation protocol opened its Discord to the public.
Upcoming
Islander an affiliate marketing & learn-to-earn platform announce upcoming IDO with Avalaunch
Minted History a crypto history NFT publisher launches its NFT staking lottery on 1 January 2022.
Snowball and Moralis team-up to teach UI and UX design
BooFinance hint about upcoming launch of farming dapp
Penguin Finance announces 2 IDOs next month
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CEX
Cypto.com supports USDC deposits and withdraws using Avalanche C-chain
Binance.us now supports purchasing AVAX using a debit card, bank account, or wire transfer
DEX
Trader Joe raised 72 AVAX for charity
Pangolin launches smarter farming contracts and sustainable revenue sh
aring
Lending
OrcaDAO opens 3 stablecoin vaults for Yield Yak interest bearing tokens
Blizz Finance launched MIM lending and borrowing
Yield Optimizers
Snowball partners with Husky Avax to give away beanies
Beefy integrates Coinbase wallet
Yield Farms
Penguin Finance announces no KYC for IDOs
Lydia Finance announced $VERSE-$AVAX farming with 10x rewards
Privacy
Avacash launched its $CASH token
NFTs
Crabada airdropped 1300 $AVAX to players
Firat, a famous Turkish caricature artist launched PFP collection—received great feedback.
Avalanche Party Animals advent calendar concludes with a trip to Barcelona
Chikn’s DAO treasury composed of $FEED reaches USD $18.4 million in value.
Minted History publishes 2022 roadmap and upcoming lottery.
Metamorph a generative art project launched round 6 of its deflationary collection.
Feelings, a hand drawn collection of 250 NFTs evoking human emotions were released.
Cookie Game launches—mint baker NFTs and stake them to earn cookie tokens.
Imperium Empires a AAA NFT GameFi platform launches its $IME token on Trader Joe.
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